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by geff82 2y ago
Aside effects of the Ukraine war, it feels like the bill people actually pay has not risen too much in recent years. Germans famously do not have air conditioning in their homes and most switched all the lights to LEDs, leading to substanti
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by geff82 2y ago
As you live in Germany, you know that many members of boards and C-Levels serve so in multiple companies. There is a difference in being a regular employee and C-Level/Board level.
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by geff82 2y ago
The right to roam/access was so natural and ingrained to me that it took me 3 decades of my life to finally realize that it was not everywhere like in Germany/Switzerland/Austria where the entire landscape is essentially one
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by geff82 2y ago
The price of a well maintained chateau in France with about 10-30 acres of land.
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by geff82 2y ago
Then what about ending all trade with China? Or what is the difference?
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by geff82 2y ago
From my experience with and in Iran: every western sanction leads to more products and services from China. Life becomes a bit more difficult, yes. But the government does what it wants to do. And China essentially takes over the economy. A
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by geff82 2y ago
Depends on your use case.
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by geff82 3y ago
My bad. My comment was wrong indeed. I confused Solaris Bank with norisbank. Norisbank is Deutsche Bank, Solaris Bank is NOT. You were right of course.
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by geff82 3y ago
Solaris Bank is Deutsche Bank.
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by geff82 3y ago
Oh yes, the economy... right.... the only thing we should ever think of.
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by geff82 3y ago
So when your company is going broke you don't care and are happy because in TV they said that the economy is growing? Are you a company-racist because you want your company to be healthy and non declining? Are you not trading with and
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by geff82 3y ago
Isn't that a sad way to be and think?
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by geff82 3y ago
You are right: it is not considered attractive. I myself do, as an example, not live in one (that said: all family lives in my region). Because we as a society somehow made "independence" the "cool" way to live.
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by geff82 3y ago
> Also not my problem. I'll be dead. This is another example of a thought pattern often encountered. The thought of "being free to do what ever I feel like" and not caring.... is a meme. > Human nature was to live out a
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by geff82 3y ago
I do not know you personally, but I reply to what you say because it is not only you who says it, but seems to exemplify what at least I see as a problem in society. I recognise thought patterns that I've heard before.
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by geff82 3y ago
The problem is just that we don't live in ONE society having 8 billion members, but in about two hundred different ones. And being in one of those that are in decline is not exactly a good feeling.
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by geff82 3y ago
Well, of course, I am not getting at you personally, as I don't know you. And of course I am not getting angry at people around me for not having kids (do I know their reasons well?). I speak more about society as a whole. Much of what
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by geff82 3y ago
Sleeping in a bed in a house is certainly the way humans prefer it. But thinking a society with not enough kids can survive and thrive, on the other hand, is wrong, because it is biologically impossible. It’s not a fallacy, it’s harsh truth
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by geff82 3y ago
No children: no society. Or: a very old, geriatric, undynamic, fearful society with no innovation. Simple. What happened that after a few hundred thousand years of having families we suddendly need to be "absolutely certain" to ha
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by geff82 3y ago
"The amount of work".... oh dear. As if caring for other people is only work. From what will you get distracted by having other people around you (kids)? From Instragram? Cycling? Reading books? What intensely important things do
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by geff82 3y ago
Do you have recommendations for good books that are not too mathematical, written for the average developer?
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by geff82 3y ago
You are right - Frameworks make building Skyscrapers easier. But it also means that you somehow first have to understand how to build them and THEN you have to understand what you don't need. Sure, starting out with some Python or Java
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by geff82 3y ago
The problem with programming nowadays is not so much the programming language or the algorithm. The problem is the ecosystem. "In the old world" (as an example) you bought Turbo Pascal, installed it on your MS-DOS and practiced an
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by geff82 3y ago
I always hated the idea to have an Apple Watch. I told everyone, so no one would ever gift one to me. Then - at first to my disdain - my wife gave one to me, because she feared I could not get help if something happened on my long runs thro
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by geff82 3y ago
I have an outlook.com account, too and having a look at the Spam-folder is as important as looking at the Inbox. Too many important mails get missing with outlook
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by geff82 3y ago
Germany has high fees when buying a house, but compared to the US it is dirt cheap to actually own the house. „Ground tax“, similar ro „property taxes“ in the US is usually just a few hundred Euro a year. Which, compared to the US, is chang
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by geff82 3y ago
Recently, we were at a resort in Switzerland. Arguably one of the safest countries on earth. But: as we exited the swimming pool house, our umbrella was gone. I said „what an irony, the first time we have something stolen is in Switzerland“
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by geff82 3y ago
Maybe Volkswagen et al. didn't innovate early enough in terms of electric cars, but it gets more interesting every day (to the point that I would by German instead of a Tesla). But where the country is spectacular: in charging infrastr
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by geff82 3y ago
Look at southern Germany on Google Maps Satellite View. It's all small towns with immense commercial/production area around it. It's not some row of Motels/McDonalds/Walmart like in many areas of the US, but tons of
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by geff82 3y ago
Isn't that in contrast to https://www.nasa.gov/technology/carbon-dioxide-fertilization... ?

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